>> Because I have absolutely no problem with looking like a complete
>> idiot...
>>
>> And I am sure I am not the only person..... I don't understand the
>> image, sorry.
>> Any chance of a quick explanation?
>
> Taking a punt as an outsider to the process...
>
> Blue == The estimated finish time based on the sum of estimated effort
> of all outstanding work items and the available resources.
> Orange == A proportionately higher estimate EG x1.2 (taking 20%
> longer)
> Red == A proportionately lower estimate EG x0.8 (taking 20% less)
> Black == Actual progress.
>
> The estimates help provide best and worst case estimates as the
> evaluation of effort for each work item could be a little easier or a
> little harder than it appears before work actually starts.
>
>
> What the chart tells us is one or both of the following:
>
> * The work is proving easier than expected
> * There are more resources so we're getting more done per day
>
> The chart provides some indication as to how progress is being made.
> Don't be surprised if the rapid progress slows more towards the
> estimation. The number of people contributing their time has recently
> been lowish and any fluctuations in availability could have a
> significant effect on the rate of progress.
>
> That said... Well done guys, excellent work.
>
> Can anyone comment as to their feelings. Is the rate of progress due
> to estimation issues (always hard) or because you've had a great
> community response?

The script that Mark is running is tools/dev/count-wc-ng.sh, a script
I initially wrote to help us know where the instances of
svn_wc_adm_access_t and svn_wc_entry_t are which still needed
removal. It was never intended to be the complete gauge of wc-ng
progress to completion, just one facet of it. Even when we get rid of
all of those data structures, we'll still have a number of other items
left to accomplish (the graph doesn't say anything about centralizing
metadata or pristines, for instance).

Oh, and we probably won't ever reach 0. For backward compat, there
will probably linger a number of these datastructures in various
places, though the fewer the better. I don't think either of these
issues is any surprise to people, I just wanted to be explicit about it.

If anything, this graph shows that we're making some progress in a
quantifiable way. There may be other aspects of the progress that are
measurable, we just haven't bothered scripting them yet. In answer to
your question, I think the rate of progress is due to both a knowledge
that the numbers are highly variable, and that additional resources
from the community have been applied. We can always use more,
though. :)